Flour Eggs & Any Old Rubbish; Recipe for Radipole’s Big Fun Day
Things are hotting up for our Big Fun Day (Saturday 24th august 12-4)...
Success; Radipole Gardens Goes All Out in True Patriotic WWII style.
Well, that's the final big event of our year done and dusted and boy did we go out with bloody big bang in true patriotic WWII style! Greeting the crowds coming to our event was this Big Beast shown below. This monster vehicle was parked out in the tennis club car park (sadly minus the even bigger tracked beast who would have been on her back had she not blown something to do with oil.) She guzzled approx £100 in fuel for owner Colvyn Gillmon just to get here here from Dorchester! Though our 1940's Big Fun Day was a cracking success, of course that only happens...
Fascinating; Discover Radipole Park & Gardens links to WWI and WWII
Discover Radipole Park & Gardens links to WWI and WWII In a couple of weeks time we will be hosting our annual Big Fun Day, only this year is a very special one. Last winter we received the exciting news that we had got though stage I of or £1,4000,000 Parks for People Heritage Lottery Bid. That's no mean feat either. It has taken our Chair, Mike Goulden literally thousands of hours of work to put together our submission, working alongside members of W&P borough council. It ended in a humungous volume of facts, figures, history of, social history, ecological study...
Begone Blasted Beast…Leave Spring Well Alone.
With this unwelcome return of the so called Mini Beast From the East...
Not Quite What the Advert Promised!
The problem with organising garden events is that sometimes Mother Nature doesn't play ball. So it was with our fruit pruning in the Community Orchard. The poster promised so much, sunshine and warmth. ...
Panic When it Comes to Pruning Your Pears? Fear Not. Join us on Tuesday 13th February 10-12 am.
Most people know about the beautiful Radipole gardens with their weeping willows and stunning flower beds...
2018 Off to a Cracking Start…
What an absolute cracker...
Radipole Gardens…A Walk on the Windy Winter Wildside
Now, I'm not exactly renown for my love of the cold, but every so often I'll don numerous warm layers and tentatively poke my nose out of the door. Decided one very windy day in January to stroll (maybe make that getting blown and buffeted along) through the gardens and capture a few images...